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There's a new kind of planet to add to Kepler's cornucopia of alien worlds, and you won't find it in Earth's own solar system. Many of the newfound orbs, described here today (Jan. 6) at a meeting of the American Astrono...

This fascinating space wallpaper shows the caterpillar-shaped knot, called IRAS 20324+4057, which is a protostar in a very early evolutionary stage. It is still in the process of collecting material from an envelope of g...

A new image from a powerful telescope in Chile reveals massive amounts of dust created in the remnants of an exploded star for the first time.

Record-breaking cold winter temperatures today (Jan. 6) means global warming must be a farce, right? Wrong, and here's why.

Rice University scientists have pioneered a tabletop magnetic pulse generator that does the work of a room-sized machine - and more.

Newly described fossils suggest that the most common cockroach of Europe and Africa originally evolved in the United States.

SpaceX will launch the THAICOM 6 satellite from its Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The livestream will begin at 4 26 p.m. EST while the launch window begins at 5:06 p.m. EST.

The brightly patterned floors of an ancient Greek palace were painted to mimic patchworks of textiles and stone masonry -- an innovative way Bronze Age artists decorated palatial rooms, a new study finds.

Poor and marginalised groups such as women, the elderly, people with a disability and those from ethnic minorities experience unfair allocation of resources (or sometimes none at all) and bore a disproportionate burden o...

A whirling onslaught of frigid air, known as a polar vortex, moves menacingly over the northern United States in a new photo from a weather satellite in orbit.

Following a series of weekend winter storms across the northern U.S., below-freezing temperatures have gripped large swaths of the county and thrown many Americans into hardcore survival mode. In New York City, temperatu...

Researchers were able to get a good look at a recent supernova and discovered an incredible cloud of dust surrounding the remains of the exploded star. The amount of dust formed by the supernova could explain why early u...

Skeletons of ancient hunter-gatherers from Morocco reveal extensive tooth decay, likely from a carbohydrate-rich diet of acorns.

Tooth decay is supposed to be a modern disease, caused by eating starchy crops, but it first became common thousands of years before the origin of farming     

From 1999 to 2011, men accounted for nearly 70 percent of hypothermia-related deaths in the United States.

Nature, in some situations, can do more than people to restore wetlands.

Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered novel compounds produced by certain types of chemical reactions -- such as those found in vehicle exhaust or grilling meat -- that are hundreds of times more mutagen...

An ancient little carnivore was one of the first meat-eating mammals on the planet, but its origins remain shrouded in mystery. The extinct creature, its teeth found fossilized in Belgium, was a tree-dweller.

Physicist Stephen Hawking has released a new iPad that lets users learn about general relativity, spin planets and create their own solar system and search for black holes.

South Korean scientists are developing a new treatment for cancer that will be more efficient and less harmful than chemotherapy. A team at Chonnam National University has developed nanorobots that can detect and treat c...

The direct action anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd has released footage of dead whales aboard the Japanese ship the Nisshin Maru, claiming the ship was operating inside the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary near Antarctica.

Piranhas are the stuff of nightmares and 3-D horror films - but some experts say the fish's ferocious reputation is overhyped. While the carnivorous fish isn't necessarily something you'd want to cuddle with, it's not go...